misleading emails

[jellen]

I just got an interesting looking email about a woman in Germany during the war and how she helped save Jewish babies by taking them out in a bag or tool box. She was nominated for a Nobel prize the same year as Al Gore, it goes on to mention Barak Hussein Obama, and said she should have won instead of a story about how Gore won with the global warning thing. I wonder if there ever was such a woman. There were probably thousands of such heroes, but to use such a situation to try to advance a lame political idea seems typical of those lame brain right wingers.

[struggle4progress]

1. Vague stories about nameless WWII-era heroes are usually impossible to track down: there

were about 60 million casualties, and a large chunk of Europe spent time as refugees

[csziggy]

2. In Poland there was Irena Sendler

The stories about how she smuggled children out sounds like that email, including hiding one in a tool box:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler#Awards

Snopes says that the story is hers, but also includes that since Nobel prize nominations are secret it cannot be known if she was nominated. http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/sendler.asp